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[quote=Anonymous]OP how can you be so dense? Others hae touched on some points but I'll sum it up:

Kendall Jenner, who is like, 21, white, and does absolutely nothing to advance social justice or civil rights as a public person, is portrayed as a "white savior" whom Muslims and African Americans cheer because she, and she alone, is brave enough to walk up to the officers and have the genius idea of handing them... a Pepsi.

This a) trivializes the work ACTUAL activists have done over the years by essentially making Kendall Jenner not only their equal, but their BETTER! They are the ones to blame for protests turning violent and having their civil rights still in question to this day. Maybe if only they had been brave and bold like KENDALL they could have been more successful!

It also denigrates the very serious issues of civil rights by tying them to friggin PEPSI.

It is 100% intended to be perceived as a BLM protest- cops don't stand in a phalanx like that at any regular political protest. They do that at Black Lives Matter protests and protests after incidents of social injustice such as in Baltimore and Ferguson. So Pepsi is saying, "Sure, people are dying for your black rights, but Kendall here has got just the answer: PEPSI."

People have died over these issues. MLK Jr., Malcolm X., Medgar Evers were all killed for their work protesting the unfair treatment of blacks and engaging in peaceful protest. This is a huge dishonor to their memory.[/quote]

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